The natural history of Selborne. Observations on various parts of nature : and The naturalist's calendar / by the late Rev. Gilbert White ; with notes, by Captain Thomas Brown.
- Gilbert White
- Date:
- 1833
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The natural history of Selborne. Observations on various parts of nature : and The naturalist's calendar / by the late Rev. Gilbert White ; with notes, by Captain Thomas Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Stench of the skunk, its effects on a female, 68. Sticklebacks, very pugnacious, 26. Stock-dove, bird of passage ; often confounded with the ring-dove, distinctions, 244; and with rock- dove, 112. Stone-curlew, 38, 52, 102; addi- tional particulars regarding, 298. Sropyn of animals, several instances of, 127. Siaersion of swallows, reasons against its probability, 30. Summary of the weather, 331. Summer and winter clothing of animals, 75, 76. Summer-birds noticed by Mr Hoy in Suffolk in 1830, 91. Summers 1781 and 1783, unusually sultry, 277. Superstitions, 192. Swallow, seen at sea by C. L. Bona- parte, 23; anecdote of, 88; mi- grates in all countries, 107; on the wanton destruction of, 183; louse, 134; monography of, 149, 259; Sir H. Davy’s remarks on, 149 ; migrations, 150; cliff, changing their habits, ib. ; attach- ment to places, 152; intrepidity of, 153; paternal solicitude, 155; edible nests of, 157; congregating and disappearance of, 303. Sweden produces 22] birds, 167. Swift, or black marten, latest time seen in England, 23; swift and large bat feed in the same high region of air, 77; young com- pletely fledged before taking wing, 127; monography of, 167; velo- -city of, on the wing, 169; same number seems to return to the same place, 216. Sycamore tree forms a beautiful ap- pearance, 322. Sympiesometer, description of, 266. Table, immense one at Dudley Castle, 6. Teal, where bred, 180. Tender plants, in what aspect to be placed, 267s 355 Tench make a croaking sound, 244. Thaws, remarkably quick ones, 269, 328. Thrush, missel, very fierce and pug- nacious, 175 ; very serviceable in gardens, 288 ; frequently builds its nest near houses, ib. Timber, large felling of, in Holt Forest, 21. Titmice, mode of life and food, 177. Toads, manner of procreating, 43 ; tame, 55; living for ages in stone, Dr Buckland’ 8 experiments on, ib. Tortoise, a family one, 100, 124, 147, 240, 242; attacked by rats, 125; eaten in Hungary, 241. Totanus hypoleucus, 50. Trees, fossil, how discovered, 12 ; generate moisture, 195; why perfect alembics, ib. ; order of losing their leaves, 320; size and growth of, 320; flowing of sap, 321; renovation of leaves, 322. Tremella nostoc, remark concern- ing,’ 327. Truffles, observations on, 326. Turtle-doves migratory, 40. Vitrified forts, probable origin of, 9. Vine, disease of, 249. Viper, blind-worm, and snake, 46; pregnant one, 200. Virginian horn-owl, its dismal cry, anecdote concerning, 132. Wagtails, are gregarious, 33; smallest birds that walk, 66; British species of, 13873; run round cows feeding on moist pasture, 304. Wagtails, their incubation inter- rupted by a cuckoo, 81; their migrations, 137. Waldon-lodge, what, and by whom kept, 17. Waltham Blacks, much infested Wolmer Forest, and by their enormities occasioned the Black Act, 14, 15. Warner, his account of the arrival of woodcocks, 105.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33094378_0391.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
